What Happened To Sunken Shipwrecks At The Bottom Of The Bermuda Sea?

This documentary travels to two distinct ocean environments to study how they are coping with a rapidly changing climate. In Bermuda, we explore the high-latitude coral reef system, a natural barrier that protects the island from severe storms. For over 300 years, these extensive, dangerous reefs have protected the coast, but rising sea levels, increased ocean acidity, and powerful deep ocean swell are now causing erosion and destroying historic shipwrecks. Scientists are examining Bermuda’s uniquely stress-resilient corals, which may hold a key to how reefs around the world can adapt. We then shift our focus to the high Arctic, warming faster than any other region. At the world’s northernmost research station in Svalbard, researchers brave the Polar Night—a period of total, 24-hour darkness. Contrary to previous belief, this ecosystem is highly active, and scientists are racing to understand the mysterious feeding habits of larval creatures that somehow survive without sunlight or their primary food source. We see firsthand the urgent reality of climate change from decades of data collected on glaciers and atmospheric greenhouse gases.

00:00 Bermuda Coral Reefs
25:23 Global Warming in the Arctic

From: Changing Seas
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